Microfinance and Polycentric Governance as Strategies for Renewable Energy Deployment in Urban Sub-Saharan Africa

Research Anthology on Clean Energy Management and Solutions Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI:10.4018/978-1-5225-8559-6.CH005

Dumisani Chirambo

{"title":"Microfinance and Polycentric Governance as Strategies for Renewable Energy Deployment in Urban Sub-Saharan Africa","authors":"Dumisani Chirambo","doi":"10.4018/978-1-5225-8559-6.CH005","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is one of the least electrified regions in the world and also a region that is characterized by poverty and inequality due to high levels of climate change vulnerability. In order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and facilitate the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals, SSA policymakers are compelled to devise new innovative strategies and policies to enhance investments in renewable energy technologies (RETs). Accordingly, this chapter provides an assessment of some strategies to accelerate RET deployment and the potential of polycentric governance systems to improve RET deployment. The assessment concluded that even though renewable energy investments through climate finance and microfinance modalities are not at a level sufficient to ensure that universal energy access can be attained in the region, SSA can still accelerate its progress on RET deployment by utilizing nationally determined contributions as instruments to direct South-South aid, trade, and investments into priority renewable energy sub-sectors.","PeriodicalId":342576,"journal":{"name":"Research Anthology on Clean Energy Management and Solutions","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Research Anthology on Clean Energy Management and Solutions","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8559-6.CH005","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 2

Abstract

Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is one of the least electrified regions in the world and also a region that is characterized by poverty and inequality due to high levels of climate change vulnerability. In order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and facilitate the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals, SSA policymakers are compelled to devise new innovative strategies and policies to enhance investments in renewable energy technologies (RETs). Accordingly, this chapter provides an assessment of some strategies to accelerate RET deployment and the potential of polycentric governance systems to improve RET deployment. The assessment concluded that even though renewable energy investments through climate finance and microfinance modalities are not at a level sufficient to ensure that universal energy access can be attained in the region, SSA can still accelerate its progress on RET deployment by utilizing nationally determined contributions as instruments to direct South-South aid, trade, and investments into priority renewable energy sub-sectors.

查看原文本刊更多论文

小额信贷和多中心治理:撒哈拉以南非洲城市可再生能源部署战略

撒哈拉以南非洲(SSA)是世界上电气化程度最低的地区之一，也是一个因高度易受气候变化影响而贫困和不平等的地区。为了减少温室气体排放，促进可持续发展目标的实现，SSA政策制定者不得不制定新的创新战略和政策，以增加对可再生能源技术(ret)的投资。因此，本章对加速RET部署的一些策略以及多中心治理系统改善RET部署的潜力进行了评估。评估得出的结论是，尽管通过气候融资和小额信贷方式进行的可再生能源投资不足以确保该地区实现普遍的能源获取，但南南地区仍可以通过利用国家自主贡献作为工具，将南南援助、贸易和投资引导到优先的可再生能源子部门，从而加快其在可再生能源部署方面的进展。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Research Anthology on Clean Energy Management and Solutions

自引率

0.00%

发文量